{"id":19166,"date":"2011-12-21T02:10:20","date_gmt":"2011-12-21T02:10:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=19166"},"modified":"2011-12-21T02:10:20","modified_gmt":"2011-12-21T02:10:20","slug":"islands-and-autochthons-coloureds-space-and-belonging-in-rhodesia-and-zimbabwe-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=19166","title":{"rendered":"Islands and autochthons: Coloureds, space and belonging in Rhodesia and Zimbabwe (Part 1)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1177\/1469605304046423\" target=\"_blank\">Islands and autochthons: Coloureds, space and belonging in Rhodesia and Zimbabwe (Part 1)<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/jsa.sagepub.com\" target=\"_blank\">Journal of Social Archaeology<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/jsa.sagepub.com\/content\/4\/3.toc\" target=\"_blank\">Volume 4, Number\u00a03<\/a> (October 2004)<br \/>\npages 405-426<br \/>\nDOI: <a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1177\/1469605304046423\">10.1177\/1469605304046423<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"mailto:seirlisj@social.wits.ac.za\" target=\"_blank\">Julia Katherine Seirlis<\/a><br \/>\n<\/strong>Department of Anthropology<br \/>\n<em>University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa<\/em><\/p>\n<p>This article, the first in a two-part series, examines the ramifications of the complex relationships between race and space for definitions of the nation and national identity in <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rhodesia\" target=\"_blank\">Rhodesia<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Zimbabwe\" target=\"_blank\">Zimbabwe<\/a>. Most generally, the workings of race and space helped polarize Rhodesia and Zimbabwe between what was set up as \u2018white\u2019 and \u2018black\u2019, and limit the struggle for power and claims on belonging to those two poles. Racial identity was inscribed into spatial sensibilities and organization so that white space (the city) functioned as a series of islands and black space (the countryside) activated organic assertions of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Autochthon\" target=\"_blank\">autochthony<\/a>. More specifically, race and space informed the creation of an intermediate racial category, \u2018<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=9281\" target=\"_blank\">Coloured<\/a>\u2019, with no substantive claim to a \u2018real\u2019 or \u2018full\u2019 identity and with no authoritative claim to the physical soil of the country.<\/p>\n<p>Read or purchase the article <a href=\"http:\/\/jsa.sagepub.com\/content\/4\/3\/405.full.pdf+html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Islands and autochthons: Coloureds, space and belonging in Rhodesia and Zimbabwe (Part 1) Journal of Social Archaeology Volume 4, Number\u00a03 (October 2004) pages 405-426 DOI: 10.1177\/1469605304046423 Julia Katherine Seirlis Department of Anthropology University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa This article, the first in a two-part series, examines the ramifications of the complex relationships between race [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1295,1649,12,8,394],"tags":[8832,8834,8833,8835,8284,1157],"class_list":["post-19166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-africa","category-anthropology","category-articles","category-media-archive","category-socialscience","tag-journal-of-social-archaeology","tag-julia-k-seirlis","tag-julia-katherine-seirlis","tag-julia-seirlis","tag-rhodesia","tag-zimbabwe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19166\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}